[While John aligns the high-gain antenna, Charlie is probably scanning the Contact Surface Sample page in his cuff checklist,
LMP-16, and the facing Station 9 page, LMP-17. Note that Station 9 is called the "Vacant Lot", and is supposed to be a site relatively free of South Ray ejecta. They plan to spend 25 minutes here.]

[Tony was listening to a conversation about proposed changes in the Rover switch configuration and missed John's question. Without waiting for an answer, John comes around and uses the large dustbrush to clean the TV lens. After John finishes, Fendell starts a clockwise pan.]

[The inbound Rover tracks can be seen in the souhtern portion of the pan. As can be seen in AS16-108-
17737, John appears to have driven into the area of Station 9 from the SSE, passing west of Charlie's position, turned right and drove in a clockwise circle through about 180 degree until, as can be seen in 17733, he made a left-hand turn and drove outside his first set of tracks in the opposite direction (counter-clockwise) until he was up-Sun of his final parking spot where, as can be seen in
17728, he turned left again to a westerly heading and, finally, turned left to park on a southerly heading.]

147:56:47 Duke: (Looking at
LMP-17) Okay, we need the surface samples. (Looking at LMP-16) And that starts with the Beta and then the Velvet. And then a skim and a scoop!

[They are about to do some special soil sampling. As shown in the sketch on LMP-16, they will select a large rock and will do the sampling on the southwest side of the rock, away from the LM and the Rover. As indicated on page 185 in the Apollo 16 Lunar Surface Procedures volume, they want to collect samples of pristine surface materials and three potential types of contamination of the sampling site are the LM Descent Engine exhaust, water vapor given off by the PLSSs as John and Charlie work around the Rover, material John might kick onto the sample site as he approaches. These three types of contamination can be minimized by collecting the sample at a considerable distance from the LM (more than one kilometer was suggested by the PI); parking the Rover on the LM-ward side of a rock; approaching the rock carefully to avoid kicking soil over the rock; and, finally, reaching over the rock and collecting the samples on the far side. As suggested by the dialog over the next several minutes, there were also concerns about contaminating the business end of the sampling tool with either dust coming off the suits as John and Charlie moved around and by the water vapor exhaust of the PLSSs. Both sources could be avoided by not pointing the business end at either suit.]

[The 'Surface Samples' will be collected with a tool called the Contact Soil Sampling device, which is shown in Figure
1 in Judy Allton's
Tool Book. The sampler head consists of two halves connected by a hinge, rather like the covers of a hardback book. As shown at the upper left of the figure, a handle is attached to what we might think of as the front cover. Once John is in position next to the rock, he will open the back cover and secure it to the handle with a strip of Velcro. This exposes the inside of the front cover, which is covered with a sample pad made of so-called "Beta cloth", which is woven from a Teflon-coated yarn. John will then reach across the rock and press the Beta-cloth pad on the surface and, in principle, will lift off particles making up the upper 100 micrometers of the surface. John will then close the Beta-cloth sampler, secure it with the Velcro strap - as shown in Figure
2 - and replace it with a sampler containing a pad made of white-nylon velvet. He will then reach over the rock a second time and press that sampler on a fresh spot and, in principle, will collect particles making up the top 1
mm of the surface. Training photo
KSC-72PC-141 shows John practicing with the Contact Soil Sampler at the Cape.]

147:57:04 Young: Okay, that rock over there, the one I'm gonna sneak up on, Charlie.

[John crosses the TV picture from right to left, going to
the CDR seat.]

[John will approach the rock very slowly to avoid
kicking soil on the sampling area on the far side of the rock. During training, this became known as "sneaking up on a rock." Training photo KSC-72PC-140 shows John has he reaches over a boulder at the Cape so he can press the sampler on the surface.]

[Jones - "I take it that you guys had an awful lot of fun with
this in training."]

[Duke - "Oh, yeah. It was the biggest joke. (Laughing) We were
just going to sneak up on that rock, you know. They wanted
absolutely undisturbed surface, you see, so we were supposed to
tippy-toe...When they first told us that, we just started giggling, so we
made it into a joke where we were going to tippy-toe...So, in practice, we
did like the Keystone Kops - you know, you sneak, sneak, in silent movies
you always knew you were sneaking because you could watch..."]

[Jones - "Up on your toes..."]

[Duke - "Yeah. That's what we did in training. And the whole
purpose was to reach over this rock so, as we walked up, we didn't kick
dust on to the sample; so, by reaching over the rock - if we had walked up
and kicked, the rock would have stopped it and we still would have had a
pristine sample out there. And, so, to make sure we weren't kicking up any
dust, we were going to sneak up on it, you see. So we just had a big kick
out of it during training, so this was our sneak maneuver. And it was just
a lot of fun."]

[Jones - "Well, let me tell you, the first time I heard this tape
- or the first time I read this stuff - I had absolutely no idea what was
going on."]

147:57:07 Duke: Yeah. (Reading to
LMP-16) "After (sample) 2 (which is the velvet pad), place gnomon." We don't have that (because the gnomon is broken). "Cross-Sun stereo 'after'; down-Sun, locator. Do skim (at spot) 3." Okay, so we don't get any pictures until we get the first two (pad samples).

147:57:20 Young: Well, you got the pan.

147:57:24 England: Okay. And before you leave the Rover, we'd like you to pull the Batt 2 Bus D circuit breaker. We'll let you put it back in
before you drive off.

[It is not clear whether John said "Bus B" or "Bus D". Someone in Houston thinks he heard John say "Bus B" and tries to call attention to the fact but, for the moment, is ignored. In Figure 1-22 in the
LRV Operations Handbook, the circuit breakers on the left side under the heading indicator and Batt 2 has breakers only for Bus
C and Bus D, making it likely that John actually pulled the Bus D breaker,
a supposition which is confirmed at
148:28:59. Tony should have said "Dog" to avoid confusion, and John should have called him on it. Note, that just before John drives away from Station 9 at
148:28:11, Houston has him switch all the steering and the rear drive power to Bus B and, on that occasion, Tony uses proper procedure and refers to it as "Bus Baker".]

147:57:46 Duke: And, Tony, a comment on this pallet (probably
referring to the tool gate at the back of the Rover). The locking on the
tool harness (means "tool carrier")...The locking ring on the
pallet doesn't stay up every time. It's slightly inconvenient, but no big
deal.

147:58:00 Young: What are you getting, Charlie?

147:58:01 England: (Responding to Charlie) Okay, understand.

147:58:02 Young: (Lost under Tony)

147:58:03 Duke: I'm going to get a shovel for the scoop (sample).
And I thought we'd maybe...And I'll tell you what I got to do is fix up
a...Start on a double (means "single") core for the CSVC.
(Pause)

[The Core Sample Vacuum Container is shown in Figure
76 in Judy Allton's
Tool Book. It is 41 cm long and will hold a single drive tube. The CSVC task is listed on LMP-17. Charlie has made several verbal errors during the last few minutes, a possible indicator of
fatigue.]

147:58:24 Young: Okay; well, let me get these (pad) samples out of the way...

147:59:03 Duke: If you'll pan left, we'll show you the rock we're going to sneak up on.

147:59:12 England: (Joking) Don't scare it. (Pause)

[Despite Charlie's suggestion, Fendell continues the
clockwise pan.]

147:59:19 Duke: (To Fendell) That's the wrong way.

[Fendell starts to pan counter-clockwise (left) while Charlie
turns to his left to look toward John.]

147:59:21 Duke: (To John) Hey, don't open...

147:59:23 Young: What?

147:59:24 Duke: Don't open that.

147:59:26 Young: It's between us and the LM! It's between the LM
and us.

147:59:30 Duke: Oh, I know that; but they don't want you to open
that thing (meaning the sampler) until you get right up next to the
rock.

[By not opening the sampler head until the last minute, all forms of contamination can be minimized.]

147:59:35 Young: Is that what he said?

[John could be asking about instructions from the experiment PI or about instructions from Tony he might not have
heard.]

147:59:38 Duke: Well, that's...Not just now; no.

147:59:39 Young: Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Charlie seems to be talking about pre-flight discussions about procedures to avoid contamination.]

147:59:40 Duke: I'm going to get the other one...

147:59:42 Young: Okay.

147:59:43 Duke: ...for you.

[Charlie is probably saying that he will get the skim and
scoop samples after John finishes with the pad samples.]

[Fendell stops panning left and resumes the clockwise
pan.]

147:59:46 England: We agree with Charlie, there. We'd like you to get up a little closer to it and face away from yourself before you open it.

147:59:55 Young: (Amused) Facing away from myself, huh? Okay.

[Although it is possible that Tony is telling John to have his back to the LM before he opens the sampler head, it seems more likely that he is telling him to avoid opening the sampler in such a way that the pads are pointed toward his own suit.]

148:00:02 England: Right, you're filthy, as Fredo says. (Pause)

[Fred Haise is the Apollo 16 backup Commander, who may be sitting with Tony. Tony's comment implies that dust coming off the suits is a major concern.]

148:00:10 Duke: John, are you sneaking?

148:00:12 Young: Yeah. Ahh!

[Fendell has stopped the clockwise pan. The view is across
the left rear fender. As indicated below, Fendell is confused as to just where John is. John is actually on the other side of the Rover.]

[Fendell finds John and Charlie southwest of the Rover and
a few meters north of the meter-sized rock John snuck up on. As shown in
Figure 3 in Judy Allton's
Tool Book, there is only a small amount of soil
on the pad, all of it along the right edge.]

[Charlie helps John free the Velcro strap that is holding
the sampler head closed. John turns to face the rock and Charlie backs off
to the left.]

148:02:17 Duke: There you go. Get it?

148:02:22 Young: Yeah. (To Tony) In an area that that (first sampler) didn't go in, right?

148:02:24 England: Right.

148:02:25 Duke: Tony, John...(Demonstrating) John was sneaking just like this. He really got up to it before it...It didn't even know he was
coming.

[Charlie plants the left foot, picks up the trailing foot, brings it forward, well clear of the ground, by rotating his body to the left, and plants his right foot a foot or so in front of the left, and so on. It is a very deliberate, slow walk.]

148:02:34 England: Outstanding, Charlie. Thanks for the rerun.

[Although John has his back to us, it is apparent that he
has been having trouble getting the sampler ready.]

148:02:35 Young: Ah!

148:02:36 Duke: Man, that thing flops open.

[John is finally ready and approaches the rock carefully,
although not with quite the exaggerated motion Charlie demonstrated.
Charlie goes around to the east side of the rock to
watch. This suggests that PLSS exhaust is not a major concern.]

[John leans to his right as he reaches over the rock and
tries to lower the pad vertically toward the surface on the far
side.]

148:02:52 England: Okay. Just a little pressure. (Pause)

[John stands and swings the sampler head up to his right and rests the bottom part of the handle on his left hand.]

148:03:03 Duke: Beautiful! You picked some up on that one.

[Charlie now has a view of the pad.]

148:03:05 Duke: Only on one corner. He got some on one corner,
Houston.

[Figure 3 from Judy Allton's Tool Book shows the Beta-cloth pad, which has lunar soil along the right edge. Figure 4 shows the velvet
pad, which has soil adhering to a relatively large patch at the lower
right. Journal Contributor Simon Atkinson notes that the two imprints John will make with the sampler can be seen in photos AS16-107-
17561 and
17562 that John takes at 148:07:43. An enhanced detail of 17561 gives us a view into the shadow. A comparison of the faint marks left by the sampling pads with the post-flight photos of the pads suggests that the sunlit imprint was made by the Beta cloth sample pad.]

148:03:11 England: Okay, we'll have to take it that way.

148:03:13 Young: That's too bad. That's the way the ground is.

[John is saying that he wasn't able to find a smooth, level
surface on the south side of the rock.]

148:03:16 Duke: (Responding to Tony) Okay.

148:03:17 England: Right. Man, you fellas have outstanding
finesse.

148:03:19 Duke: I'd say about 20 percent of it's covered.

148:03:22 England: Twenty percent is pretty good. That's fine.

148:03:24 Duke: I think 20 percent...(Stops to listen) Okay, 20
percent of one corner is covered. I mean, 20 percent of the whole thing is
covered.

[After John gets the sampler closed, he turns to his left to
face Charlie, who steps in to help. Charlie grabs the sampler head and
John removes the handle without difficulty.]

[As per LMP-21, the SCB which is currently on the Hand Tool Carrier at the back of the Rover is the one that is supposed to go in the SRC. Charlie is saying that that SCB is already full of samples.]

148:04:02 Duke: Okay, John, that was beautiful.

[Charlie is having trouble getting the SCB
open.]

148:04:05 Duke: Guess what.

148:04:07 Young: What?

148:04:09 Duke: (I can't get the) top open, again. (Pause)

[Charlie finally gets John's SCB open, stows the samplers, closes the SCB, and then hops around John to get the scoop. He is going to collect a skim sample on the southeast side of the rock.]

148:04:18 Duke: Okay, now we got to go get...After (sample) two, place the gnomon. I'll put the shovel. We got a cross-Sun 'after', and a down-Sun and a locator.

[Charlie tries to position the scoop so he can plant it next to the east side of the rock to serve as a gnomon. It takes him a few seconds to get a position he likes and, during that time, it isn't obvious to John what he is doing.]

148:04:28 Young: Okay. Well, that's going to be hard to get. Don't put the dirt all over there!

148:04:31 Duke: I didn't! I missed it.

148:04:34 Young: Okay. It's going to be hard to get
because...(Pause) I need to...

[Charlie gets the scoop planted and backs up to get the
down-Sun.]

148:04:44 Duke: You can get a cross-Sun from over on this side.

[Charlie waves toward the south side of the
boulder.]

148:04:48 Young: Okay.

148:04:49 Duke: We don't have to sneak anymore.

[John runs south between Charlie and the rock, carrying the
UHT. Charlie turns to his right to get some light on his camera
settings.]

148:04:52 Young: We don't need a UHT anymore, do we, Houston? Are
we going to need it for the ALSEP?

148:04:58 England: Negative.

[Evidently, the sampler handle is one of the ALSEP Universal
Handling Tools (UHT).]

148:04:59 Duke: We got one back there.

148:05:00 Young: You got one back there?

148:05:02 Duke: Yeah, it's sitting in the heat
flow. See how far you can throw that beauty.

[John was facing the rock and, with the UHT in his right
hand, rapidly turns to his left and releases it. It sails out of the
field-of-view to the left.]

148:05:09 Duke: Look at that!

148:05:11 Young: Clean across the crater!!

[There is a sizable crater in the middle
distance.]

148:05:13 Duke: Beautiful. Okay, I'll go get the down-Sun. There
we go.

148:05:19 England: Well, at least in the vacuum, it doesn't
boomerang.

[When John released the UHT, it started rotating rapidly around it's midpoint and Tony's reference is to the behavior of Australian boomerangs which, of course, depend on airflow over their curved bodies to achieve curved flight.]

[While John takes a cross-Sun stereopair from the south,
AS16-107-
17558 and
17559, Charlie runs around behind him and takes a locator, AS16-108-
17741.]

148:05:40 Duke: Ah, ha.

[Charlie is probably pleased that he got John in the
picture.]

148:05:42 Young: Okay, Houston; I'm looking back at the LM. Charlie,
you can get a picture of the...I can get a picture if I put it on
f/whatchacallit, and it'll show that rock is between us and the LM.

[John has backed up about two meters and leans back to raise his camera for AS16-107-
17560. The LM may be the object just above and to the left of the flat-topped boulder which is on the near horizon above and slightly to the left of the scoop
handle.]

[Duke - "Well, in the military, you have a set of requirements
you've got to do to, like, stay current in an airplane. You need so many
landings, you need so many approaches, you need so many whatevers. So they
have a matrix, you know; and across the top you have columns and the
horizontal axis it might be the dates or something like that. And when you
get one, you filled the square; you'd make a check mark and that was called
'filling the square'."]

148:06:05 Duke: Yeah, well, wait a minute, we got to get a skim
(sample). Okay.

[Charlie gets the scoop.]

148:06:17 Young: Okay. Can we skim where the pristine sample (that
is, the pad sample) was?

148:06:19 England: Okay, we'd like to skim next to it.

[Charlie backs away from the rock to the south a meter or two and then hops sideways to his left around to the west side of the rock.]

148:06:20 Duke: No, they want it right beside it, right there ...

148:06:23 Young: You can't see any of that, there.

[Charlie is getting the sample in the shadow of the rock and John is pointing out that the area won't show up well in the
photographs.]

148:06:24 Duke: Yeah, I can see. Okay, here
we go. Get me a bag ready.

148:06:30 Young: Okay. (Long Pause)

[John gets a bag ready while Charlie raises the skim sample and starts pouring it in.]

[In Houston, Flight is told that Charlie, in particular, isn't using
his cooling water and oxygen nearly as fast as during EVA-1 and that a 7-hour 35 EVA can be done comfortably.]

148:07:52 Young: (To Tony) Okay. I'll get you a little flightline of that.

[John steps farther to his right and takes a third picture of the area, AS16-107-
17563. A "flightline stereo" is a sequence of pictures taken while the astronaut moves sideways, step-by-step and frame-by-frame. Each pair of successive frames forms a stereopair.]

[Next, John gets a bag ready while Charlie gets and raises the
sample.]

148:08:01 Young: Okay, and Charlie's scoop is being taken right under the (skim sample as shown on CDR-16)...(Pause)

[John is having trouble getting a bag loose. Note that John still has the skim sample bag in his left hand.]

148:08:10 Duke: You got it. (Long Pause)

[Charlie pours the deep sample.]

[Jones - "It looks like you had to shake the scoop to get the soil to go into the bag. Did it tend to stick?"]

[Duke - "Sometimes; yeah. Well, if you'll notice there, that angle where I had it, it wasn't enough gravity to pull it out; so you had shake it. Normally, if you could turn it over (demonstrating by raising an imaginary scoop past vertical) like that, it would all fall out, because there was nothing to cause it to stick; but (there was) surface tension between the soils and the shovel, even though it was polished aluminum. There was some tension there and, so, at that little low angle that I had there, you needed to shake it out. But, generally, you didn't have to."]

148:08:28 Young: Okay.

148:08:29 Duke: Okay, there you go.

148:08:30 Young: That's going in bag 377, Houston.

[Charlie presents his SCB and, after sealing bag 377, John stows both 376 and 377.]

148:08:33 England: Okay, 377. And you've got about 10 minutes now, and we'd like to get that CSVC (Core Sample Vacuum Container).

148:08:43 Duke: Okay, Tony. We can turn this rock over. If you want us to get that sample in, we need an (time) extension.

148:09:03 Duke: John, you want to start sampling while I do that? (Listens to Tony) Okay, I'm going.

[While Charlie heads for the Rover, John takes a stereopair of the rock from the south, AS16-107-
17564 and
17565. David Harland has assembled a mosaic consisting of frames 17560, 17564, and 17573. The first two are post-sneak pictures of the rock showing John's footprints and the sampler imprints, and the last shows the boulder after John tips it over.]

148:09:10 Young: Okay. Well, I can get...(Long Pause)

[John takes a stereopair from the northeast, AS16-107-17566 and
17567.]

[John drops to his right knee and grabs the fragment. He nearly loses his balance as he gets up. He grunts with the effort and, then, as he walks forward, the pack of sample bags falls off his camera.]

[Charlie backs up and takes a cross-Sun stereopair from the south, AS16-108-
17742 and
17743.]

148:11:36 England: Okay. And remember not to hammer this one all the way in.

148:11:44 Young: (Garbled) top of that...(Stops to listen)

148:11:45 Duke: Yeah, yeah. Got you.

[While Charlie takes his pictures, John takes the boulder fragment to the Rover.]

148:11:46 Young: The (sample off the) top of that rock is a hard breccia, and I'm just going to throw it under your seat, Charlie.

[This is sample 69935, a 128-gram breccia shown in Figure 93C in the Professional Paper.]

148:11:58 Duke: Okay. Is it in a bag?

148:11:59 England: Okay; did you have a bag number?

148:12:00 Young: Huh?

148:12:01 Duke: Is it in a bag?

148:12:03 Young: 373.

148:12:04 England: Okay, 373. (Pause)

[Journal Contributor David Harland notes that the Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report states that sample 69935 is in bag 378 and bag 373 has been used already for sample 60075, which Charlie collected at the ALSEP site prior to the traverse to Station 1. Here at Station 9, John has previously used bags 376 and 377 and, even though he has just dropped the bags and then retrieved them, it is likely that he has misread 378 as 373. Readers should also note that bag number 373 also appears briefly in the Station 1 dialog at123:33:12, where John tells Tony that he and Charlie are using 373, only to be corrected by Charlie, who notes that the bag is really 372.]

[John crosses the screen from left to right, headed for the boulder. Charlie hits the extension handle four times with the flat of the hammer. On the fourth blow, the hammer twists in his hand. He stops, re-aligns the hammer, delivers four more blows, and steps back.]

148:12:16 Duke: Okay, Tony, that's about 7 centimeters out.

148:12:19 England: Looks good to us.

148:12:25 Duke: Feels good to me, too, to get that (garbled).

148:12:29 England: Rog. It looks good.

[Charlie pulls the core out with his left hand and then rotates the tip up to his right and balances it on his right hand with the tip pointing up to keep the soil from running out.]

[Fendell finds John taking the first picture, a down-Sun
stereopair of the tipped boulder, AS16-107-
17575. He then moves to his right and takes
17576. He has already taken a cross-Sun stereopair consisting of frames
17573 and
17574. In the down-Suns, note that, because of the low Sun angle, it is all but impossible to pick out the boulder imprint.]

148:14:44 Young: Okay, you want to just sort of sneak up so you
don't sprinkle any dirt down in the bottom of this place (meaning the
boulder imprint) where we turned it over.

148:14:50 Duke: Yeah, okay.

[As Charlie runs toward the boulder, using a loping stride
for a change, he gets good elevation and speed. His form is similar to the
form he showed early in the ALSEP deployment. He is showing no signs of
fatigue.]

148:14:51 Young: (Garbled) neat, Charlie.

[As John and Charlie approach the boulder, they slow to a
walk and then stop to look at the imprint.]

148:15:18 Duke: No, the black stuff is the glass. That other is
crystal...That's a crystalline rock.

148:15:21 Young: Yeah, yeah. Well, that part of it is.

148:15:24 England: Very good. (Pause)

[Charlie digs deeply into the boulder
imprint.]

148:15:32 Duke: And it looks just like an alkali flat in the cake
that's under it, Tony.

[John puts the hammer on the boulder and gets a bag ready
while Charlie raises the scoop.]

148:15:40 Duke: And that's right from the deepest part. (Pause) That sample is right in the middle, which happens to be the deepest penetration that boulder made.

148:15:53 England: Very good. (Pause)

[Charlie stuck the tip of the scoop head in the bag and then rotated the handle up to pour. Evidently, some of the sample wouldn't come off the scoop because John uses his free hand to grab the scoop head and shake it.]

[Jones - "The two of you never seem to have any particular
trouble getting these soil samples in the bags with you manipulating the scoop, John holding the bags. That all seemed to go fairly well."]

[Duke - "Yeah; right."]

[Jones - "Gene and Jack sometimes had a bit of trouble. Jack was the one who used the scoop; he's the shorter one. And it sometimes got a little awkward."]

[Duke - "Well, I was the taller one; so, when I used the shovel,
it was easier."]

[John takes a cross-Sun stereopair from the south, AS16-107-
17577 and
17578. He then folds the bag shut and turns toward Charlie, who has forgotten to present his SCB. He does so now. After stowing the sample, John turns toward the boulder and gets the hammer. Charlie turns to watch.]

[John kneels on the north side of the rock and delivers
sideways blows to the edge of a light-colored piece that appears to project
off the northeastern face. He hits the rock eight times without
success.]

148:16:46 Duke: (Joking) Real friable, isn't it?

148:16:49 England: Now you found a real rock.

[The thirteenth blow breaks off a piece. The fragment flies
off the boulder, but straight toward the ground. John
stands.]

148:16:50 Duke: Aha!! Look at that piece! (Grabbing the scoop)
Here, let me get it, John. Back up. I'll go get it. There it is right
there. (Pause)

[Charlie plants the scoop near the sample and, holding the
handle in his left hand, walks around it and then backwards until his feet
are extended well behind him and he has most of his weight on the scoop.
He reaches down slowly and carefully to grab the
fragment.]

148:17:09 Young: Can't you just pick it up with your shovel?

148:17:12 Duke: I didn't want to get it too dirty. (Pause)

[As he forces himself lower, Charlie finally rests his right
knee on the ground and begins to lift his left knee so he can get some
rotation down to the right.]

148:17:17 Young: (Garbled)

148:17:21 Duke: Ah!

[Charlie finally has a grip on the fragment. He pushes back
on the scoop and gets his full weight on both knees. Before the suit
pitches him forward, he pulls the scoop out of the ground and then
re-plants it just in front of his knees. In the process, he gets some soil
on his legs.]

148:17:24 Duke: Ooops.

[Charlie pushes back on the scoop and rises without
trouble.]

[Jones - "This is a real nice example of the advantages of having
a little support and making use of a slope."]

[Duke - "Yeah, it sloped away. I sort of put my feet down below
the shovel, and so I could push back on it. Once you got up over your
knees, the bend in suit gave you more spring and you were able to spring up
easier."]

[Jones - "And did the slope also help you get down into the
kneeling position?"]

[Duke - "Yeah. Yeah; it did."]

148:17:26 Duke: There we go. (To Houston) Okay, we got you about a
4-centimeter chip.

148:17:30 England: Okay, that sounds good. Just get some photos of
it and I think we've done it.

[While John gets a bag out, Charlie examines the
fragment.]

148:17:38 Duke: And that's not glass, John. Those are crystals.
Those are big crystals. At least 5 millimeters, with a bluish cast to
them. (Pause)

[This is sample 69955, a piece of crystalline rock with an included vein of glass. It is shown in Figure 95C in the
Professional Paper.]

[John puts his left foot back, leans forward so he can see his shin
pocket, opens it, and stows the hammer. He then holds the bag out for Charlie.]

148:17:59 Young: That's going in bag 380, Houston.

148:18:03 England: Okay, 380.

148:18:07 Young: (Examining the fragment) It looks to me like it's a (pause) shocked rock with a lot of - and this is a guess - a lot of black glass in the fracture patterns.

148:18:20 England: Okay.

[Because John is the one who has color film and takes the
cross-Sun "afters", Charlie holds the scoop against the rock face
to provide scale.]

148:18:23 Young: Okay.

148:18:24 Duke: Okay, I'll hold it (next to the rock). (Pause)

148:18:25 Young: Wait a minute, I got to reset...(Pause)

[John adjusts his camera settings and then takes a
stereopair, AS16-107-
17579 and
17580. As Charlie mentions in a moment, John is about 5 feet from the rock.]

148:18:43 Young: Okay, that was a...

148:18:45 Duke: Okay, that was about a 5-footer, Tony. A little down-Sun, and the shovel is right where the...

148:18:52 Young: Frag was.

148:18:53 Duke: Frag was.

[Charlie presents his SCB.]

148:18:54 Duke: Close my top on that thing, John.

[While John stows the sample and secures the top of
Charlie's SCB, Charlie straightens the scoop head.]

148:18:55 England: And, John, while your working on it back there, why don't you close that thermal cover to Charlie's OPS. It's on the rear
left.

[Houston's concern is that, when they get back in the LM,
the OPS will be hot to the touch. Charlie plants the scoop and leans
forward but the flap is still out of reach for John. Charlie bends his
knees, but it is still a reach for John.]

[Once they are back in the cabin and John is taking his gloves off at 150:05:56, Tony reminds John of the possibility. John reports that Charlie's OPS is 'cool as a cucumber'.]

148:19:29 Young: Can you suggest any way to close it? I can't get
it. (Pause) I can't get it.

148:19:37 Duke: (Standing) Well, let's forget about it.

148:19:38 Young: Let's go back to the...(Pause) to the Rover.

[Charlie heads for the Rover and John
follows.]

148:19:43 Duke: Yeah, I've got to close this CSVC up; take me a
couple of minutes. You could go get a sample. Okay?

148:19:56 England: Okay, we'd like you to pack up, John, if you
could help Charlie. I think we'll have to get on.

[John heads for the Rover and Fendell pans left. Note that
John struggles a bit as he comes out of a shallow depression. Although he
and Charlie have plenty of reserve energy, they are both showing occasional
signs of fatigue. Figure 10-4(a) in the Apollo 16 Mission Report shows
John's EVA-2 heart rate and 10-4(b) shows Charlie's. Both of them are
currently showing heart rates of about 90 beats per
minute.]

[Fendell zooms in on a flat rock that is sticking up,
diagonally, out of the soil east of the Rover.]

148:21:23 Young: Wait a minute, Charlie.

148:21:26 Duke: Slid right in. I never would have believed it.

148:21:28 Young: I wouldn't have thought it, either.

148:21:29 Duke: I never would have believed that. Hope it's down in far enough to lock it, though.

[Charlie is concerned that he won't be able to seal the top of the CSVC, which is shown in Figure
76 in Judy Allton's
Tool Book. Like
the Special Environmental Sample Container (SESC), which is shown in
Figures 92, 93, and 94 in Judy's Tool Book - the CSVC is designed to hold a vacuum so that the sample can be analyzed for volatile content.]

148:21:35 Young: You'll have to pull the bottom...

148:21:37 Duke: Huh?

148:21:38 Young: Push the bottom shield off. I mean, pull that off.

148:21:40 Duke: Ahh!. (Pause)

[As Fendell pulls back on the zoom and resumes the counter-clockwise pan, note the northbound Rover tracks in the foreground. John made these as he approached the Station. Station 9 is roughly a kilometer west of the path John followed on the southbound trip to Stone Mountain.]

148:21:56 Duke: (I need to) put the spade up. (Pause) What did you do with the shovel, John?

148:22:14 Young: I laid it over there on the bench (meaning the
seats).

148:22:17 Duke: Okay.

148:22:18 Young: Yeah. (Long Pause)

[Fendell stops the pan and zooms in on a small, steep-walled
crater northeast of the Rover.]

148:22:38 Duke: Tony, that CSVC goes in the...(Pause, with some
grunting) (Garbled)

148:24:25 Duke: Okay. Tony, I don't have a black and white left. (Pause) I'm going to run off a couple, John.

148:24:34 Young: Okay. (Pause)

[Charlie takes AS16-108-
17744, which shows the handcontroller and John standing on the far side, and 745, a lightstruck picture of Stone Mountain.
The frame will become lightstruck when Charlie changes magazines.]

[John turns toward the TV camera and takes AS16-107-
17581, an excellent picture which shows the dustbrush, the closed battery covers, the uncovered LCRU mirrors, and the TV. He then turns and takes a picture or two toward Stone Mountain. Frame
17582 is
lightstruck.]

148:24:42 Young: I'm out. Three frames to go and I'm out.

148:24:44 England: Okay.

148:24:45 Young: How about that?

148:24:47 Duke: Okay, magazine Bravo's got something in it; a few frames. You used about 50 on it yesterday. And we can use magazine Delta. Both put color on. Is that okay, Tony?

[The last frame taken on magazine Bravo was AS16-114-
18441, a picture of the LM shadow in the area of the UV camera taken just before the end of EVA-1. Delta is a fresh magazine.]

[Charlie got two useful frames as he advanced the film.
AS16-115-
18471 is a lightstruck picture of the handcontroller. John is on the other side of the Rover changing his film magazine. In
18472, we see John putting a film magazine in his camera. Note the other film magazines in the cloth-enclosed storage area under John's seat. The magazines are quite large because they each hold 170 frames of 70mm film. Under John's camera, we can see his sample bag dispenser and, also, the Red Apple he would pull to activate his purge valve in an emergency.]

[In the TV record, we see John putting magazine Bravo in his
camera.]

[In Houston, Flight tells the Surgeon, "We're looking at an EVA
capability, here, of 7 plus 35 (7 hours 35 minutes) on the PLSS. What do you think of that?" The Surgeon responds, "Well, I think they're pretty tired. They're showing a lot of fatigue. I just wonder if it's advisable to push 'em that long." Flight responds, "Well, okay, it's not a matter of adding anything here; it's just giving them a little more time to finish up what we've got scheduled. I'm not going to add other tasks. I just don't want them to think they've got to rush through what we've got left." The Surgeon's response is lost under Charlie,
but Flight tells him to think about it during the drive to Station 10. The EVA will actually end at 7 hours 24 minutes.]

[John turns to his left so he can advance the film and get some
pictures of Stone Mountain in the process. As he turns, the sample-bag dispenser falls off his camera]

148:26:28 Duke: Okay. Let me come around and help you put it on. (Pause)

[John kneels to get the bags and appears to be steadying himself by holding on to the Rover. He rises with them after a few seconds. As he holds up the bags, note that they are orange in transmitted light. Charlie has joined him and takes the bags.]

148:26:40 Young: Okay?

148:26:41 Duke: Yeah. The tape's still there. This thing just peeled off under the tape. (Pause) Oh, boy; I almost...

148:26:59 Young: Only happens in training. You got it.

[Charlie finishes attaching the bags to John's camera and goes off-camera to the right, headed for the LMP seat.]

148:27:02 Young: How's my lens?

148:27:04 Duke: Turn into the Sun. (Pause as John turns toward the southeast) Okay.

148:27:09 Young: Got your finger...

[Apparently, Charlie is just off-camera to the right and has used his finger to raise John's lens to get a good look at
it.]

148:27:10 Duke: That's okay. Won't even see that. (Pause)

[While Charlie goes to the LMP seat, John takes a picture of Stone Mountain, AS16-114-
18444.]

148:27:16 Duke: (To Houston) Okay. The DAC is set at f/8 at 12 frames a second. And I'm not going to turn it on until we start moving, Tony.

148:27:22 England: Okay; that sounds good. (Pause)

[Previously, Charlie ran the 16-mm camera at 1 frame per second. At 12 frames per second, he doesn't want to waste film by turning the camera on now.]

[John may be referring to the fact that the TV camera is
already pointed aft.]

148:28:01 Duke: They were looking at us with the big eye.

148:28:05 Young: There's a glass (garbled).

148:28:11 England: And, John, we have a small configuration change. We'd like both the (Rear) Steering and the Rear Powers to Bus Baker.

148:28:20 Young: Okay. (Pause)

[At 147:57:31, shortly after John and Charlie arrived at Station 9, Houston asked John to pull the Battery 2 Bus D circuit breaker and there was some possible confusion caused by the fact that Tony said "Bus D" rather than "Bus Dog". Here, Tony avoids confusion, at least in this regard, by saying "Bus Baker".]

148:28:26 Duke: All the steering?

148:28:31 England: That's affirmative, the rear steering.

[Charlie's confusion is caused by the fact that, while the
rear steering can be on either Bus B or Bus D, the forward steering can
only be on Bus A or Bus C. It is impossible to have "all the
steering" on Bus B. See the accompanying MSFC photo.]

148:28:32 Young: (Lost under Tony) clean now.

148:28:34 Duke: I know it. See, when you...(Stops to listen)
Okay.

148:28:40 Duke: Man, I'm glad that you're driving this thing. I
can't reach those buttons down there at the bottom. You ought to get that before you get in. (Pause)